Scanners III: The Takeover

Directed by Christian Duguay and written by B. J. Nelson - the same team that did Scanners 2, as well as some of the same actors - this film is not related at all to that movie. It's also way better than that movie. Helena Monet (Liliana Komorowska, Screamers) is a scanner who constantly deals with the horrifying side effects of those powers until her adoptive father's experimental Eph-3 drug drowns out the voices, but also causes her to lose all of her morals. She kills that father figure, takes over his drug company and also starts to take over all of the world's entertainment. Meanwhile, her adopted brother and fellow scanner Alex has been raised in a monastery where he'd have no outside voices bothering him, but now he must come back to a world he doesn't know to stop his sister. So yeah - amazingly, the third Scanners film is not all that bad. Even more incredibly, Scanner Cop blows this away.

Obviously nothing will top the original scanners but this movie actually opened up some interesting abilities such as video taping a scannner command and whomever watches it follows that command. the 3rd act got a little silly but there is some great gore effects. i reccomend it if you like Scanners and are willing to watch something not excellent but interesting. B+ considering i thought i was going to watch some bs

This movie is misunderstood. It caters to a very specific audience that enjoys seeing power abused to create injustice. Much like other movies of this type, much of the movie focuses on the main villain. The villain uses their disproportionately powerful abilities for pleasure and profit. People who look too deep into the plot will be disappointed for they didn't grasp that the movie is a * for power, affluence, and domination. If you enjoy seeing people struggle from the overpowering supernatural abilities of an immoral female protagonist disguised as an antagonist, then this movie is definitely for you. There are very few like it, and in that sense, this movie is a gem. Other movies that resemble to this on are Supergirl, Stardust, I Dream of Genie, Zap 3, and Matilda. All of which had a poor score because most didn't understand what the target audience was.

OK, I wasn't expecting Citizen Kane but this movie rivals Corey Haim's FEVER LAKE as the worst horror movie ever. I knew the plot, acting, and script would be bad. That was exactly why I was watching it. What made this film bad was the fight scenes. The two main Scanners just gave each other dirty looks. The Scanner with the weirdest, body contorting, facial expression will rule the world. If this is how Scanning works, every little kid in the world is a Scanner. Maybe they are . . .

in the worst possible way.this movie is worse than the second one.not only is the acting bad,but it was over the top,and not in a good way.this movies tries too take itself seriously and be something it isn't,which is a good movie.this thing is absolutely ridiculous,with a plot that is not only bizarre,but is truly not from this planet,or probably any other.there's no believability here at all.but in all fairness,this movie is at least as loud as the last one,so i guess that's something.not something good,but something.the whole premise of Scanners is not believable by any stretch,but in this mess,the unbelievability factor is way past the stratosphere.in case i'm not being clear,i didn't like it. 0/10

Christian Duguay directed in 1991 "Scanners II: The New Order", that same year he directed a third part, "Scanners III: The Takeover". The second film was amazing but this third part is weak, some good acting and gore, interesting scenes but the film is not that good, the comedy used in some moments is stupid. The script could be better. "Scanners" and "Scanners II: The New Order" are great films, but "Scanners III: The Takeover" is not good but not that bad either.